tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90396174073849362372012-01-19T16:59:55.806-05:00The Little Blog of Literature That Can By All MeansRegina Edelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292617547644965633noreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-38558175296264737692011-09-29T12:55:00.007-04:002011-10-05T12:19:24.037-04:00

click on title above to see Regina in a new MasterCard commercial from 2:16 to 2:19

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Click on the title to read Nick Yanes at SciFi Pulse interview me about Marvel Comics, the difference between the comic book industry in the late 80s/early 90s and now, my Regina and her novel Garments of Fleas, and my novel in the works, Comic Book Marginal.

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click on title for photos

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THE VIEW FROM BELOW & QUICK ON THE DRAW- THE KOSTABI SHOWwith Daryl Edelman, Linda Yablonsky, and John Zinsser with pianist Pat Daughertyclick on title for video

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cartoon of me by Rick Parker, best known as the artist on Beavis and Butthead comics for Marvel. Click on the title to view his collaboration with Harvey Pekar in SMITH Magazine.

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in the sky with my Regina and Bitsy Bananas -- click on title for video

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click on title for video

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by Daryl Edelman (c)2010 Daryl Edelman

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by Regina EdelmanSummer 2009 the United States is in recession. My husband and I don’t have jobs. No company wants to employ us as if we’re infected and undeserving to continue living after our fifties. Money enough, we make our own world as we boldly head to the future. I believe my studies of man and nature will be helpful to the blind journey of humankind.Wind rattles lanterns on the sun-roof

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Dear Kleo,Thank you so much for sharing your view and sympathy for my personal story.I will tell you another story from a chapter of my experiences: A homeless child scratched the door of a car parked in front of the boardinghouse where I lived in São Paulo. The owner of the car arrived coinciding with the moment the boy practiced his crime. The boy ran. The owner of the car ran after him and

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by Daryl Edelman

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by Daryl EdelmanI was twelve. Burlinda, wise fourteen, said she liked my writing but didn't understand it. I remember her family's frowsy black bird walked on the kitchen counter and left peck marks on the soft butter bar there. She wrote on my FaceBook wall today, "Absolutley nobody calls my brother Squeaker anymore. Remind me of the past." She's still pretty.

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by Daryl and Regina EdelmanIronically, at this moment, New York City police are on the roof of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, protecting Iranian tyrant and holocaust denier, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is staying across the street at the luxurious Battery Park Ritz-Carlton where he is enjoying a sweet view of the Statue of Liberty!While the U. S. economy is in a

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by Daryl EdelmanHe's funny and thoughtful and opened his first free reading from his third book, Big Machine, by showing the first fifteen minutes of John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing, popcorn included, at McNally Jackson Booksellers in Little Italy last Tuesday.The story shows the mythical origins of a religion among many, a sort of spiritual X-Men, LaValle told the respectable-sized crowd before

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by Regina EdelmanThe old Municipal Civil Guard of São Paulo State was a corporation founded in 1906 to ostensibly patrol urban areas to protect citizens and their patrimonies. It was extinguished in 1964. A door slammed. “Shut the fuck up, bitch!” a man half dressed in Municipal Guard uniform shouted. Broad back, arms strong as his long legs, Miguel Valente embroidered on the left breast pocket

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by Regina EdelmanGisela and her siblings came home escorted in a Boomville police car. Few people on the small town street saw the black and white Gol park in front of the Oliveira's house on the corner, and a body builder policeman like a flamenco dancer get out and patiently and politely push three kids from his car to their veranda. “The three Oliveira kids!” the few neighbors gossiped to each

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by Daryl EdelmanIt is to eschew reason to believe that any invisible man is giving dictation for everyone to follow. That idea may have been necessary in the past, but we all know the bare truth of life by now--so you must agree then that we must all move ahead to better ways from new free ideas based on the truth of observation, and not fear of unseen mysteries and voices, that it is time to

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by Regina Edelman The Saturday of the Marvel Reunion arrived. I couldn’t argue the right words with Daryl to make him go to his half hour bicycle at the gym. My Daryl hates to exercise and I tell him he must at least four times a week. His doctor told him he has to exercise too, but my willful husband’s biology is programmed to not exercise at all, especially on a day he has such a matter ahead

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by Regina Edelman“This is a cemetery of Spanish and Portuguese soldiers,” my husband told me about the ground framed below our third story window on Saint James Place in Chinatown. “Seven soldiers and a general who fought in the American Revolution are buried here, Portuguese Jews from Recife, Brazil who came to the new world hunting for easy gold as the Dutch did. New Amsterdam became famous

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by Regina EdelmanMom came home from church after ten o’clock in the morning. Spiritually comforted, she sat on the edge of wounded grandma’s bed, and for some seconds pensively watched me feed the old lady bread soaked in warm milk when somebody knocked on our door.“Mom, there’s someone at the door,” I said.“Who’d knock on our door?” mom asked.“I don’t know. You need to check to know.”“Don’t

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Saturday around ten in the morning, two months after the September 11th tragedy, my husband and I stepped out onto Saint James Place to head for breakfast. I turned to check on my bicycle chained to a post in front of the old Jewish cemetary.Another bicycle was parked next to mine on the sidewalk. A skinny shaved-head white man in black loose clothes bent busy over the handlebar of my bicycle,

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by Regina EdelmanOnce I watched a show on National Geographic about dolphin life. The narrator dramatically explained that the ocean is a dangerous place to be, but what about danger on land?The weakest is the first to die, and that man ahead of me is the strongest, at least in muscles. He’d easily kill a woman to satisfy any sick passion he may have.I scrutinized the size of my trouble. The

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by Regina EdelmanMany living bodies will pass through the bodies of other creatures. That is to say, uninhabited houses will pass in pieces through inhabited houses, giving them something useful, and bringing with themselves their own harm. This is to say, man’s life is made up of things which are eaten, and they bring with them the part of the man which is dead. –Leonardo da Vinci I read to

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by Regina EdelmanBad energy rebels surf in waves of time to devour young universes. We good energies found Earth full of such young universes in development. We don’t know if the animals on this farm will have time to grow for good or bad. I’m in charge of studying the minds of human beings, and send messages of goodness.Humans are fearless. They fear death, don’t fear to kill. They drink alcohol

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by Regina Edelman“You don’t look fifty, Joey, such a slim body and beautiful skin,” my friend Americus said as I stepped out of my black Beetle that sunny and humid summer day in Fairfield, Connecticut. A mild wind hissed through the sycamore, pin oak, and magnolia darkly shading our way, and willows hissed ahead. My friend Americus did the best thing in his life not bringing a child to his world

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I woke disturbed by the same bad dream I always have of being chased by the police because someone told a lie about me. Janey and I showered together then dried each other off with threadbare bath house towels from a warm pile on top of the hot water pipes. Then bundled again, somewhere between Williamsburg and Greenpoint, we walked silently west toward the East River, Manhattan skyline red and

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Janey called and said, I stayed over my friend Carson’s last night, didn’t get home till this morning. We stayed up, talked all night. I told her about you. You’ll love Cars.She a stripper too?Yeah? So?You got a lot of stripper friends?She’s my only friend. She knows what being a society dropout is like. She says I shouldn’ta told you and your friends I strip, but I like to be honest. You want to

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Next morning, Janey and I loitered in bed. Sun through the windows splashed her uncovered body.You’re beautiful.What’s beautiful? Some guys like chocolate, some, vanilla. You like Rocky Road.Are you kidding? You could be a movie star.I know. Maybe I had a chance a long time ago, but I blew it, always pissing my karma away.What are you saying? You're a beautiful young woman with your whole life

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by Daryl EdelmanThis story originally appeared in Sex and Guts, a website and magazine edited by Gene Gregorits and Lydia Lunch in 2003.Our dizzy little party laughed, drunkenly sashaying through fat falling snowflakes past the Russian and Turkish Baths on East Tenth Street. I had my arm around Tommy’s beautiful Japanese girlfriend, Banana. Twenty years ago, me and Tommy roomed together at

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Patiently, I waited until the end of August to see what art Dave and his followers would design to humiliate and offend me more, and so:On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Regina Edelman wrote:Hi, Michelle,I hope your summer was good and you are well. Is it possible for you to give me an update about my Garments of Fleas? I thank you.Ciao,Regina----- Original Message -----From: Michelle QuintTo:

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I was wrong thinking that I’d never hear from Dave again. He sent me a message by emissary two days later:----- Original Message -----From: Michelle QuintTo: Regina EdelmanSent: Monday, April 21, 2008 12:46 PMSubject: Dave EggersHi Regina~My name is Michelle and I'm Dave Eggers's assistant. I help out with emails when Dave is swamped with too many things, which he is at the moment. He's taking

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Nonetheless, I went ahead; it isn’t time for me to die yet!Analyzing Dave’s reply, I didn’t understand what he meant by “great people.” Whatever he meant, I must say that all people on earth are great, no matter how wretched.I didn’t understand why Dave again gave me his resume and the schedule of his duties. What makes him insist on thinking that I don’t know who he is and what he does? What do

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From: "Dave Eggers"To: "Regina Edelman"Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 9:03 PMSubject: Re: Enid News & Eagle, Enid, OK 7.12.1998I would never cast you out! I will always be your supporter, but I'm afraid it will have to be from a distance. There's just no way I can communicate how much stuff I have on my plate right now. I honestly have to edit two books in the next week and send them to press. I

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In this bitter process of rejections and humiliation, Joel Rose, a writer friend Daryl knows from working at DC Comics together, read my manuscript and said that he loved to be in my world, that he learned about Brazilian history and culture, that he laughed and cried, and that my story was magical. Joel said that the structure of the novel is correct, and that the corrections are minor. I asked

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If it’s not written on the page, I don't know what you're saying –Daryl EdelmanA month went by. Dave didn’t answer me. I always thought a duty of an educated man is to answer to his affairs. What kind of manner is his? Is it in college where this kind of lesson not to answer is taught? I didn’t give up though. So far, he had not said no to me, and I didn’t understand what his silence meant. I’m

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--- Original Message -----From: Regina EdelmanTo: Dave EggersSent: Friday, February 29, 2008 8:11 PMSubject: Re: Great letterHello Dave,I hope you are doing good! Every minute of my life I've been thinking your lights turned to my manuscript, and that at this moment you're reading it, although is well true that you didn't promise you would, but your words struck me it would be possible for you to

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A bit of good news about my manuscript came through the mail. I received my certificate of registration of my copyright from the Library of Congress. I was never so proud of myself. Maybe it’s a dumb thing to be proud of having a work (that came from inside me) copyrighted by the Library of Congress of the United States of America, I don’t know; I thought it a rare achievement for a Brazilian

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Last we learned, Dave Eggers kindly replied to my query letter. I went on polishing my novel in order to send it by the time I told him I would. Then one evening, my computer broke. I lost a good part of my archives, including the file of my work that day, and when my computer came back from the store restoration, I had to type all again.Unnecessary also, I had to go to the small case court to

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Dear Reader,I do not intend to post letters of everyone who once wrote me. The only object of the letters in this document is to show my struggle to be alive and strong to narrate that I didn’t follow the steps of prostitution or become a thief, but wanted to study to say: beaten, the fleas were not enough to make me weak and now I stand alive on top of earth, begging of you a chance to explain

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